Sunrise Pages July

Opening Up to Your Message, My Creator and Source!

Blue skies and a gentle, steady breeze adorn this day.  Today is mine, and we’ll see how it unfolds; but, looking out, I hope to spend some time outdoors.

Already, though, I’m not sure that will happen, because there are so many other things I would like to do.  I am tempted to tune in and follow my heart, let it lead me to delight and fulfillment.

I rested well overnight.  I’m giving it 4 out of 5.  I stayed up late watching speeches, but I ended my night with an Oprah and Deepak meditation, and then went to bed without setting an alarm.

I woke early, but decided to try to get more sleep, and I was successful.  I again woke and got up around 7:45 a.m.

I awoke with a gift – a dream I remembered, that had a message for me, which I’ll share here.  Some of the details have already faded, but here’s the gist –

There was my wife, myself, and a young boy, probably nine or ten years old.  We were inside, someone’s home, and my wife and I were navigating around the kitchen-living room-dining room common area, moving around and doing our own things, while the boy was stationed, with a laptop, doing some schoolwork and research; maybe even watching the speeches.

The boy was asking questions, exploring his interests, curiosity, and inquisitive nature – “What does this mean?”  “Why would he say that?”  “Why would they do that?”

And, while we continued our frenetic back-and-forth, mostly engaged in our other tasks and priorities, we would issue answers that, I see now, were presented as obvious and simple.

At one point, part of my wife’s answer to the boy is, “…and it can open doors…”

But, that’s just one of the many things we say, as we rush around.  We deliver answers without deliberation or consideration.

In fact, I notice that I’m becoming frustrated with all the questions, because each question pulls my concentration from the tasks I am trying to accomplish.  So, without fully realizing it, I actually choose to attempt to tune them both out in order to focus on the things I’m doing.

Until!  Suddenly, with frustration, the boy shouts, “Please, let’s talk about the doors!”

I’m pulled out of a sort of half-sleep.  My first thought is – What’s going on?  He doesn’t usually act up like this!

Then, in my head, I try to play back the tape of the last few minutes, and I notice that my wife and I had both been half-listening.  So, when he kept pursuing this idea of doors opening, we both had tuned him out.

So, that’s the dream.  I’m going to allow it to continue to steep, because I think there is a lot here for me.

Right now, though, this is what I have first received – as we walk through our lives, and we are students trying to notice, to understand, and to learn, part of that process is to synthesize, discuss, and debate the data and experiences we encounter, and creatively question – “What does it all mean?”

Too often, though, we are rushing around, barely hanging on, too overwhelmed to inquire, surrounded by others also too overwhelmed to inquire.  Everyone’s on auto-pilot, reciting bland, empty answers to our life questions – as if life is, or is supposed to be, bland and empty.

“What about the doors?”  This is what this darling boy was shouting to us.  “Let’s talk about the doors!”  Let’s wonder how we connect and find passage to a bigger world, the Whole World.  Let’s wonder together how we help others find their doors.

He was also asking, “Isn’t my question worthwhile?  Am I going in a good direction?”

Don’t we all wonder about that?  Do we keep ourselves over-busy and overwhelmed, because we fear no one’s listening?  Because keeping busy distracts us from feeling unheard and unanswered?

 

Dear One, please consider this Prompt:

What messages do you get when you read my account of my dream?

What questions do you hear?  How does it make you feel?  What action does it call for in your heart?

 

Dear Guides – Thank you for the rest, and for this new door!